Cozy Campfire Game Fireside Feelings Is Free to Keep on Steam for a Limited Time
Cozy campfire game Fireside Feelings is free to keep on Steam for a limited time. Players can grab a spot by the fire and share a tale or two.
Cozy campfire game Fireside Feelings is free to keep on Steam for a limited time. Players can grab a spot by the fire and share a tale or two.
Wizards of the Coast announced at NYCC 2026 that Dungeons & Dragons' next Universes Beyond release is a Star Wars crossover, including the adventure Star Wars: Tyro Squadron and a new Core Rules expansion. Tyro Squadron is set during the Original Trilogy and casts players as part of a secret Rebel crew fighting the Empire. More details on the expansion will be shared at Star Wars Celebration in April 2027.
Pony Island, an early game from Inscryption developer Daniel Mullins, is free to keep on Steam until Oct. 12, 2026. A sequel to the game is scheduled for early next year.
A review of RuneScape: Dragonwilds finds the game strikes a respectable balance between fantasy RPG and survival crafting, but its crafting system is bloated with workstations and materials that make it more laborious than fun. The first arc took 20 to 30 hours to finish, and the second arc, Fellhollow, took about the same time for its story quests. Dying drops your entire inventory and teleports you back to your last camp, though this can be turned off in the settings.
Nivalis Nights is a story-heavy shop simulation with light relationship building, where conversations affect four attitudes toward the player—friendly, combative, romantic, and savvy—but dialogue options are not clearly marked. Lead writer Thomas Welsh said the opaque romance system was an intentional choice rather than a tested alternative. Some characters' romantic paths are obvious, for comedic effect.
Why Nivalis Nights intentionally avoided transactional romances https://www.pcgamer.com/games/life-sim/i-was-nice-to-you-three-times-in-a-row-so-can-i-have-one-sex-please-why-nivalis-nights-intentionally-avoided-transactional-romances/
Amanita Design announced Machinarium 2, a sequel to the 2009 puzzle adventure, with no release date yet but a trailer out now. The game again stars the robots Josef and Berta, and this time players switch between them to solve puzzles with their different abilities, while the text-free communication through speech bubble icons, symbols and gestures remains. After escaping the city of Machinarium the pair crash-land in the barrens and find a hidden valley home to two robot tribes, one in the Elektrona monastery and one in the city of Oilton below, both slowly running out of power. Composer Tomáš Dvořák returns, and the game supports gamepads from the start while keeping point-and-click controls.
The Galaxies Showcase returns on October 15 with announcements from ZA/UM, Embark Studios, and Frontier Developments, among many others. The stream starts at 12pm PT and can be watched on IGN's YouTube channel, Facebook, and Twitch. Other participating companies include Krafton, Square Enix Collective, Team17, Raw Fury, and Saber Interactive.
Pony Island 2's free Steam playtest is now live for anyone who doesn't mind it being "incomplete and subpar." The developer's own words describe the build that way.
Shadow of the Road delayed to March 10, 2027 https://www.gematsu.com/2026/10/shadow-of-the-road-delayed-to-march-10-2027
Trivia Murder Party 3 still needs some work, but that's what early access is for. https://www.siliconera.com/preview-trivia-murder-party-3-has-a-ways-to-go-to-match-the-sequel/
Blaze Entertainment's Evercade Nexus is a new handheld with a 5.89" IPS screen, front-facing stereo speakers, Bluetooth headphone support for the first time, and two added analogue sticks. The standard version bundles a Banjo-Kazooie Double Pack cartridge featuring native ports of Banjo-Kazooie and Banjo-Tooie with widescreen support, higher resolution, 60fps and dual-stick controls. Around 15 of the 750 Evercade games currently support analogue control, including Soul Reaver, Tomb Raider 3, Duke Nukem: Time to Kill and 40 Winks.
Easy Fox, the developer of Teach My Little Sister How to Drive, has taken out a bank loan to keep the AI-powered demo running as daily costs reach $1,000. Demo players grew more than twentyfold over the past month, and the four-person team says financial pressure may force it to close the demo earlier than expected. The game uses Google Gemini and ChatGPT for its dynamic NPC, and the paid release will factor expected AI usage into its price.
Mexico-based studio Interactive Dreams has announced This Is Not For You, a dimension-defying maze game in which you play Ulysses, a shipwrecked sailor trapped in a strange lighthouse that is bigger on the inside. Inspired by Mark Z. Danielewski's House of Leaves, the game has you draw maps on a doodlepad while each step slowly drains your blood, and it is out next year.
IGN's preview of Militsioner shows players trapped in a town watched by a giant policeman, with freedom to explore and interact however they choose. The game includes roguelike elements, letting players spend points earned by improving the policeman's mood after death.
Nivalis Nights, a cyberpunk slice-of-life simulation game, is discounted just after launch. Players take over a noodle bar in Nivalis, befriending or feuding with local vendors and restaurant owners in a cozy experience despite a curfew and a serial killer. It's described as a mix of Stardew Valley and Cyberpunk 2077.
Mintrocket has announced that the final wave of DLC for Dave the Diver will launch in early 2027 as a free expansion crossing over with Subnautica 2. Dave and Bancho will step through a mysterious portal to explore the ocean moon Proteus and catch strange creatures and ingredients. Few other details about the DLC have been revealed.
Car Park Capital is $15.29 on Steam early access (10% off launch discount) https://buff.ly/Frahvdu
Core Keeper is free to play on Steam until Monday. Players can explore, mine, fish, and battle in the game.
At the Triple-i Showcase, Dave the Diver studio Mintrocket announced the game's final DLC, which brings the worlds of Subnautica 2 and Dave the Diver together. The DLC is set for release in early 2027.
Moonlight Kids' timeloop metroidvania Echo Weaver gives players almost everything needed to finish it from the very first moment, with knowledge as the only real gain. Its glaive can be thrown, recalled, and teleported to, letting players skip platforming and puzzles and even reach endgame areas early. After four hours, Rock Paper Shotgun calls it a vivid, freeform Metroidy puzzler with minimal combat and a few rough edges.
The LudoNarraCon Story-Rich Megabundle is available on Steam, featuring Until Then and 9 more adventure games for a total of 10 titles. The bundle focuses on narrative-driven games.
The Steam LudoNarraCon Sale 2026 is now live, featuring story rich games at up to 95% off. Players looking for a good story can take advantage of the discounts.
The author looks back at the many Early Access games in their Steam library, noting that Tale of Immortal: Tianmu Weixin took 8 years to reach 1.0 while Project Zomboid remains in Early Access after 12 years. The piece argues that Early Access turns player communities into near co-creators, and that buying games during Early Access is a way of supporting the industry's future.
Modern Sky's Game House teamed up with Haoyou Kuaibao to set up a game expo area at the Guangzhou Strawberry Music Festival that ended in late September, offering demos of over a dozen titles including Under the Fog Sea, Gui Huan and Hungry Wilderness, with Infinity and Lili's Little People Country also hosting reservation booths. Game House head Zhao Yue said music festivals need content to fill idle time while game expos struggle to give non-hit titles exposure, making the two a natural fit. Haoyou Kuaibao said it is targeting the 18-to-25-year-old general entertainment crowd who would not normally visit a game expo but might be interested in games.
Humble has launched the Triple-i Initiative Showcase Bundle, with tiers starting at $8. The bundle is aimed at indie game fans.
After about five hours with Silver Pines, IGN's Tristan Ogilvie says Wych Elm Games has folded Silent Hill and Resident Evil style survival horror into a 2.5D metroidvania. Tools such as a box cutter, sledgehammer, sewer key, and pistol open new routes as players solve puzzles, fight enemies, and search for missing singer Eddie Velvet. The author notes it is the debut release from a core team of five and is out now on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, PC, Nintendo Switch, and Nintendo Switch 2.
"Meow! Let's Slack Off Together~" will officially launch on Steam on November 5. It is a relaxing desktop idle fishing game where fish hook themselves, and players can fish, collect drift items that hatch cats, and dress up. At launch it will offer over 100 outfits and scene decorations, plus multiplayer rooms or friend invites for fishing together.
JIAOHUN, a cinematic first-person psychological horror game, was unveiled globally on October 8 at the 3i plan showcase and is expected to launch in 2027 on PC via Steam and PlayStation 5. Developed by Shanghai studio 12AM BLACKOUT using Unreal Engine 5, it is set in the Chinese town of Xiannü in Baishui County on the eve of the millennium and blends puzzle solving with walking simulation, switching between 4:3 and 2.39:1 aspect ratios. The game will be playable at the Beijing stop of the HJJ event on October 24 and 25, 2026, at booth B07-1.
Flyway Games, a creative studio under KRAFTON, announced that its hand-drawn action adventure Waltz in Stumbles will launch worldwide on December 3, 2026 for Steam, Nintendo Switch 2, and PlayStation 5. The news came with a new trailer that debuted at the 3i Plan indie game showcase on October 9. A free demo is now available on Steam and covers roughly the first hour of the game.
Abylight Studios has released a free playable demo for S.O.N.A.R. on Steam, available since September 30. The demo includes a single-player tutorial and two selected missions focused on crew cooperation and submarine management. The full game launches on October 29.
MINTROCKET teased a new Diver Dave DLC crossover with Subnautica 2: Alien Waters, planned as a free update in the first half of 2027. Players will explore a sea region called Proteus with Dave and Bancho, gather sea creatures, unlock recipes, and encounter the giant deep-sea creature Leviathan. Producer Hwang Jae-ho called it the final DLC for Diver Dave.
Pugstorm and Fireshine Games are inviting players to try the full version of Core Keeper free on Steam this weekend, running until the early hours of October 13. The free weekend includes the new Riders of the Underground update, which adds rideable mounts and a grappling hook, and supports 2 to 8-player online co-op. The game is also 6-off in the Steam autumn sale at 45.6 yuan until October 23, and trial progress carries over to a purchase.
BeXide has announced Cat and Paste!, a copy-and-paste hide-and-seek party game for PC via Steam with support for English, Japanese, Korean, Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, and Russian. The game supports two to 16 players online, with cats copying stage objects to transform and pasting decoys to hide from hunters. An open playtest will run from October 16 at 18:00 JST to October 19 at 16:00 JST.
BeXide announces copy-and-paste hide-and-seek party game Cat and Paste! for PC https://www.gematsu.com/2026/10/bexide-announces-copy-and-paste-hide-and-seek-party-game-cat-and-paste-for-pc
ICEY 2, the sequel to the Chinese indie game ICEY, opened crowdfunding on October 1 with an initial goal of 10,000 yuan, passing 5 million on day one and 20 million within three days, and now exceeding 30 million yuan from over 200,000 backers. Producer Lao Ma (Xiao Zhuohong) knelt during a livestream to ask players not to idolize him and said he would never crowdfund again. The game is expected to launch on May 1 next year at 48 yuan, made by a six-person team, with the funds going toward CG, music, META content and physical merchandise.
Chinese studio 12AM BLACKOUT will showcase its first game at Fusion 2026 Beijing, offering on-site demos with collectible merchandise for completing a check-in. The first-person psychological horror title, built in Unreal Engine 5, is set in the fictional town of "Baishui County's Xiannü Town" on the eve of the millennium and is expected to launch in 2027 on PC (Steam) and PlayStation 5. The event runs October 24-25 at Shougang International Convention Center in Beijing, with single-day tickets priced at 139 yuan.
Wuthering Waves version 3.7, "Mirror-Locked Illusions, Heart Illuminates the Mortal World," has launched, bringing the Xuanfang Realm chapter to its conclusion. The new map Mengshu Tianluo centers on Mengxuan Creek Mountain, while the Chaoyue Festival presents Xinyuehu and the Moon-Chasing Festival as part of its Eastern cultural narrative. An animated PV titled "Seeking the Heart" was also released, alongside a "Chaoyue Festival Special Performance" co-hosted with Shanghai Yu Garden.
If You Like Scrappy Old Resident Evil Games, I Recommend ANOMALITH's PS5 Demo https://www.pushsquare.com/news/2026/10/if-you-like-scrappy-old-resident-evil-games-i-recommend-anomaliths-ps5-demo